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• Aart Luitjes, Harderwijk († 1929)
• Adrianus Petrus Wouters, Amsterdam
• Cornelia (Corrie) van Os, IJSSELSTEIN, Utrecht, Nederland († 2010)
• Annigje van den Enden, Berkel,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1928)
• Aartje Johanna Groen, Rotterdam († 2024)
• Adrianus Nicolaas Josephus Verheugen, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2001)
• Barend Bosman, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1973)
• Claire COSTIER, Brasschaat (B) († 1981)
• Aarón de Hoyos, Morelos, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico († 1997)
• Cornelis Anthonius van Treijen, Gouda, Nederland († 2022)

• Celia Strayer (59), Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Kant Heuvel, van der (60), Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Antoine Jean-Joseph alias Toon de Bijl (45), Rotterdam
• Barend Sijmons (56), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Wilhelmina Keurvorst (40), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• 00 Klaasje van der Jagt (41), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Schoenmaker (0), Leiden
• Anna Coerts van Beyma (89), Harinxmastate, Beetsterzwaag
• Adrianus Alblas (50), Oosterbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Coerts VAN BEYMA (89), Beetsterzwaag, Friesland, Nederland

• 1926 » Bob Rosburg, American golfer († 2009)
• 1926 » Leonard Rossiter, English actor († 1984)
• 1927 » Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer
• 1927 » Howard Zieff, American director and photographer († 2009)
• 1928 » Eudóxia Maria Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist († 2015)
• 1928 » Vern Mikkelsen, American basketball player and coach († 2013)
• 1928 » Whitey Ford, American baseball player and coach
• 1929 » Fritz Hollaus, Austrian footballer († 1994)
• 1929 » Pierre Bellemare, French radio and television host († 2018)
• 1929 » Ursula K. Le Guin, American author and critic († 2018)

• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (b. 1852)
• 1944 » Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (b. 1877)
• 1952 » Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
• June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
• November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

The temperature on October 21, 1928 was between 6.6 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.